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, 1887-04-21

AMERICAN SYMPATHY.

LONDON, April 20.-Gladstone writes !:
al attach very high value and import
ance to the manifestation now inces-
SAINT OF American as well as colonial
sympathy with the Irish people in the
crisis created by the causeless, insult
ing and insiduous bill at present be-
fore parliament. Apart from particu-
lar and more or less formal acknow-
ledgmonts am not of the opinion
that it would be proper or expedient
for me to take it upon myself to ad-
dress any general communication to
America on this subject, which, how
ever, noticed and may again notice
in parliament. Still l am very
anxious that the people of this coun-
try should have the means of under
standing SO much beyond the range of
any sectional impulses, and how truly
national in the United States the
movement has become, and in this
view ! would recommend that an en-
deavor be made to present some esti-
mato OF the aggregate number OF per-
sons by whom the recent meetings in
America were attended, likewise
especially an estimate of the number
OF governors, mayors, senators, repre-
sentatives, clergymen and other Off
cials or highly responsible persons by
whom such meetings were .counten-
anced or supported"
PARNELL's SIGNATURE.
Managers of the press association
assert that they have seen the sigma
.ture written by Parnell in 1883, show
ing some of the characteristics notice
able in the signature in the Times,
but all differ from one another some-
what, so that definite opinion can
not be formed from q comparison of
them.
LEFT HIS BED AND BOARD.
A dispatch from Vienna to the
Standard says that the Queen of Servia
has separated from her husband, King
Milen, and returned to her family in
Russia. Political and domestic diff
ferences are grounds given for separa-
ton.
AFTER SALISBURY.
The Daily News says it is deplorable
that in the heat of political controversy
an English gentleman, such as Lord
Salisbury is, should have adopted the
principles of unscrupulous libellers.
THE UNHAPPY GEAR.
Police at Kief and Odessa have dis
covered plots to kill the car by blow
ing up the imperial train in the event
of the czar's visiting southern Russia
A Suicide.
DENVER, April 2O.-David White
brother of Harry White, the well
known railroad man, at one time con-
nected with the Chicago & Northwest
ern, suicided here to-day by shooting
himself through the heart. White has
been drinking hard OF late.
Baso Ball.
, 1887-04-21
MONEY TO THROW AT THE BIRDS.

Arrangements are now being made
at the treasury department for the
construction of a new silver vault in
that building to accommodate the
rapidly accumulating standard silver
dollars.
, 1887-04-21
No Choice.

TALLAHAsEE, Fla, April 20.-In the
democratic caucus to-day the fifteenth
ballot for senatorial candidate resulted :
Perry, 46; Bloxham, 40. No choice.
, 1887-04-21
Sullivan Shut Out.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, April 20.--Mayor
Kelly this morning addressed O letter
to the manager OF the grand opera
house ordering him not to open the
house Thursday evening to Jno. l..
Sullivan's combination, as such exhi-
bitions are in violation of law.
, 1887-04-21

At Observation-Disclosures IA;
Cleveland 6.
At Louisville-Louisville 6; St..
Louis 8.
At Baltimore-Athletics 2; Balti-
moro 8.
At New York--Bi ooklyn 12; Metro
politan 0.
In row at the railroad front Mon
day evening near Bailey Hill, Gala, a
man named Sykes shot and killed one
Wister. Sykes received several dang
erous knife wounds. but will probably
recover.
, 1887-04-21

All building stations will be at Equa.
torville, which will be the headquarters
OF the expedition. According to the
latest news from Lieut.. Taunt, il is ex-
pected to launch the new steamer at
Stanley Pool about the middle of May,
and soon after it will start upon q long
journey up the Congo, also on the
great Kassaia affiuents.
Members of the dry goods mer-
chants committee recently appointed
to protect the interests OF trade mat
ters growing out of the enforcement
of the interstate commerce law, are
not It little puzzled as to their legal
rights under special freight contracts,
as Chairman Cooley, Of the Interstate
commerce commission, declined to
say whether contracts for special rates
below the tariff schedule can be abro
gated by the railroad companies or not.
The committee will at once consult
competent lawyers and then decide
what to do in the matter. 1t is thought
the outcome will be test case in the
courts.
, 1887-04-21

WASHINGTON, April 2O.-The presi-
dent made the following appointments
today: Samuel f. Bigelow, Of New
York, to be United States attorney for
the district of New Jersey; Henry f.
Merritt, of Illinois, to be- United States
consul at Chemitz.
, 1887-04-21
a Suicide.

DENVER, April 20.-David White,
brother of Harry White, the we'll
known railroad man, at one time con-
nected with the Chicago & Northwest
ern, suicided here to-day by shooting
himself through the heart. White has
been drinking hard OF late.
, 1887-07-01
NoxelIst Jnmes, napId compesItlon.

James T. Fields used to mention the
novels of G. P. r. James as examples of
rapid composition. When the novelist
was in this city he was attended at his
hotel every morning by an amanuensis,
to whom he dictated page after page
while striding up and down the room,
rarely hesitating for n word, but speaking
as rapidly as the other could write. Mr..
Fields once asked this young man if he
were not glad when his morning task was
finished, to which he replied in the mega
tive. MIR. James has an eAdsperating
way" said the amanuensis, "of stopping
in the middle of a chapter just when N
has become intensely interested in the
story, and l have to beg him to go on, rs
l am anxious to know how it will end"
Even Poore's rapid dictation was prob
ably not equal to the voluminous novel
lists ready flow of words. Boston Globe.
, 1887-07-01
White Dresses at Cost Myers.


The manufacture of sand is an impor-
a industry, which has Pittsburg for its
headquarters, although the sand is not
made within the limits of the city. There
is a considerable traffic in Monongahela
sand, which is scooped up from the bed
of the river, to be used for common
building purposes; but the manufacture
Of sand is quite another affair, and the
product goes into quite a different COM
modify, which is glass.
Practically glass is almost pure sand,
other substances used in its manufacture
for iluXing being consumed while the
sand is transformed to a greater or less
degree Of transparency. Tho SAND used
in glass making is almost pure silica, 80
nearly pure that there is less than 1 per
cent. OF iron, magnesia and aluminium,
to 00.1 per cont. Of the other. And of
this sand, which is quarried out of the
hills and ground down to various de-
grecs OF Gncness, and washed to various
degrees Of whitcncs5, 500 tons are manu-
featured daily, 400 tons being consumed
in and about Pittsburg and 400 tons go
ing into eastern Ohio and West Virginia,
10 Wheeling, Bcllairc, Columbus and al
points within q circuit Of $50 miles from
Pittsburg.-Popular Science Monthly.
, 1887-07-01
Craze for Stuffed Animals.

Now, why do people, and especially
small children, like stuffed animals: Be
cause they are not sufficiently familiar
with the living body of the animal to
feel any shock on seeing the dead one.
They miss no familiar action, they arc
ignorant of the proper curves and they
think the glass eyes look so harmlessly
"alive again" But that is a fault in
training. They think them beautiful;
they do not see that the colors are dull,
faded or ridiculously renovated with dye.
Such is their ignorance that they feel as
the peasants felt when they saw the good
father who had christened the child or
Gained the sick standing up in n nice
frock looking as good rs new. Oh, Grass
stupor of the sensesl bluntness of feeling
for the reality of association 1t is not
the frock which makes the monk, it is
not the fur which makes the squirrel, nor
the wing nor the glass eye which brings
back the song and the rustling of trees
and the darting flight in the sunshine.
Nothing but being unaccustomed to the
form and action of the creature living
makes that creature pleasant to us when
it is no longer Intercollegiate.
, 1887-07-01
Now York,. Network of Wires.

There are about 30, 900 miles of tele-
graph and telephone wires in New York
city. OF this number the Western Union
Telegraph company operates and con-
trolls more than 5000 miles, 500 miles of
which are already placed in conduits
underground. The same company oper-
ates over 100000 miles all told. Its
wires if stretched in one continuous line
would go around the globe nearly eight
cen times, and they would reach from
the earth to the moon and almost back
again. The 0 1000 miles of wire in this
city would make over 2,220 parallel lines
from tho Battery to Harlem river, and
over double that number from the East
to tho North river at the greatest width
of Manhattan Island.
This length of wire weighs compare
lively little. The wires of the Western
Union company vary in weight from
$50 to $50 pounds per mile. Taking the
smallest sized wire rs a basis for calcula,
ton, ono ton Of metal would make thir-
teen and one-third miles of wire, while
1000 tons would be sufficient to stretch
around the world, with plenty to spare.
The cost Of tho wires is about six cents
per pound. They are very durable when
stretched through an open country, last,
ing from twenty-five to thirty years.
Atmospheric changes affect them but
little. Repairs are chiefly made in towns
where chemical substances arc used for
manufacturing purposes, the smoke from
b factory chimneys being very destruc-
tive to the metal.
, 1887-07-01
THE WORLDS BIGGEST SPONGE.

Dissertation OF n Prize T~aksr-MedItsr-
ranoan sponges-Curiosities Found.
THAT is the largest Florida sponge in
the world, " said q William street dealer
to n reporter.
The sponge looked like the matched
roof of q small cabin, md measures
eight feet in circumference when wet.
1--WE have one in Philadelphia on tenn
Dorary exhibition there that is ten feet in
circumference. 1t is from the Mediter-
ranean. This sponge has taken medals
in France, Amsterdam, New Orleans and
other places. We would not take $500
for it. 1t holds fifteen gallons of water"
The reporter was then shown the
smallest, which is as big as o chestnut,
and never grows any larger. 1t is taken
on the reefs and is sold for q slate sponge.
1.-The Mediterranean sponges," con-
tinued the informant, ''are taken in the
Grecian archipelago, by men in diving
suits, who so into much deeper water
than they do in Florida. There most of
them are taken with graphing irons, In
the same way as oysters. They can be
seen with the eye at the bottom, clinging
to the rocks. When one is dislodged
another grows in its place, taking from
six months to a year. A great many
are also taken in the Bahamas. The
market for that crop is Nassau, New
Providence. Key West is the market
for the Florida sponges. which are taken
all along the coast. Trieste n London
are the markets for the Mediterranean
sponges. Some are AIKEN off the coast
of China"
care any curiosities found in them?"
1--WE had one once that inclosed a
large jug. 1t was a fine sponge, and
had crown completely around it. They
are frequently full of shells. When a
sponge is first taken out of the water it
is as black as ink, and it has to be treated
by various processes until it becomes the
color commonly seen. A sponge is the
lowest order of animal life, being con-
sidered partly animal and partly vege-
table. A number of minute animals live
in it. The business is about half q CEN
fury old in this country. Sponges are
sold by the bale in this country, and by
the case in Europe. They weigh from
25 to 100 pounds. When sold by weight
the dealers are allowed to sand them
about 25 per cent. Prices range from
$40 to $3.50, the latter for very fine
toilet sponges. There are many grades,
such as silk, velvet, cup, glass, bath,
surgeon, slate, ETC."
"When is the active season."
'Spring and fall are the active seasons
for selling. For gathering, the latter
part of the year-November and De-
cember-is the most active, although
some fishing is carried on all the year."
New York Mail and Express.
, 1887-07-01

The old clio man could, if he would,
tell curious secrets of well dressed hui
manity. Most of us can recall transac-
tons with this peripatetic trader, in
which, after treating with contumely
each individual piece of n not inelegant
wardrobe, he logged of the garments
and left with the seller q pitifully small
sum in exchange. The gilded youth
does these things better. His old clothes
are but technically old, as the young
soldier of q few years service is techni-
cally q veteran. lie never wears a gar
ment longer than a few weeks, and he
sells it for a fair percentage of the
original cost. He gets long credits from
his tailor and cash down from the old
clo' man He thus contrives to be
always well dressed at q comparatively
moderate cost. 1t is told of a great
ready made clothier's son that the young
man appeared in a new suit at least once
a month. He wore his garments care
fully, and after they had been pressed
and cleaned returned them to his fathers
stock to be sold as new to an u~nsuspect-
ing public.-New York Letter.
, 1887-07-01

If teachers will only be induced TO give
to young scholars the simpler compost
tons of the best composers when the am
bilious children begin to clamor for
pieces" instead of making them learn
N after the other 1.-The Rose Mazourka,"
or 1.-The Lilac Waltz" or 1.-THE Flower
Polka and a dozen others of like charac-
ter, by nobody knows whom, until the
nerves of all the members of the family
are quite worn out with the succession of
tinkling tunes (for one cannot call them
melodies), it would be a step in the right
direction. l made such n suggestion as
this to the mother of q pretty, bright
little miss Of some IL or 10 summers,
who was almost clever enough to ham,
mer out the jingles unsteady, and the
mother Immediately insisted that shc
should be given some of Mendelssohn's
exquisite "Songs Without Words"
Her teacher, or professor, if you like,
replied: "Ah, madame, a year or two
hence will be quite time enough for
that" But, " insisted the determined
mother, 81 wish you would at once give
my daughter some of the simple condo
lier songs, and thus, by easy stages, take
her IN to the difficult ones" An I'M
willing compliance was the outcome of
her firmness, and now, the year he wished
her wait being but little more han half
out, the young pupil executes with deli
cate touch the soft, sweet airs of some
half dozen of Mendelssohn overtures, and
has developed a decided taste for the bet
ter class of music-is now well started on
the road to a classical education in music,
and the little thing criticises the efforts of
her less fortunate companions in the most
laughably learned manner, plainly show
ing her distaste Tor the waltzes and galops
they still finger. If my little story of real
life points a moral even to but few its
mission on earth will indeed be beneficial
to the world at large.-Chicago Herald.
, 1887-07-01

=" AgAahNs
One of the most famous oculists In
Paris tells a droll story of his omnipres-
ent concierge and how he rid himself of
the mans opportunities. One day the
doctor stopped Mr.. Janitor on the stairs.
"My fine fellow" he said, ''let me LOOK
at your eye. Ali 1 thought SO. You
must have that eye treated at once.
Come in an hour and I'll examine you'll
The man, in great alarm, promised to do
rs he was bid, and at the appointed time
appeared IN the Doctors office. After a
thorough examination he was told moth
ing but the greatest care on the Doctors
part could save his sightl 1t was a
lucky thing for the poor concierge having
an oculist in the house to watch over
himl In half an hour the tables were
turned; the oculist had been the terrified
slave, now it was the %janitor. His graft
tude knew no bounds; nothing was too
good for this cher doctor who kindly
dropped a globule Of pure water in his
eye every other day, and thus saved his
sight!-Boston Herald.
, 1887-07-01

1t is doubtless the case that in many
instances-and perhaps they are the
maJority-dying persons lapse gradually
into an Inconsistencies hat ends their
bodily pain, and saves them from the
anguish of the final parting with those
they leave behind. 1t is not uncommon,
however, for clearness Of comprehension
to persist to the last, and perhaps it is
stu more common for some of the special
senses to preserve their activity. We
think it was Ernst Wagner who, in his
General Pathology" dwelt particularly
on the preservation of the sense of hear
ing in many cases long after the apparent
occurrence of Inconsistencies, and who
tenderly cautioned his readers that this
possibility should be borne in mind
New York Medical Journal.
, 1887-07-01

"When the bathing season arrives"
remarked a natatorium professor the
,thor day, well hear of the usual max
mum of drowning cases, and among
them, as usual, a fair share of expert
swimmers. The chief reason why good
swimmers are 50 often drowned when
they are accidentally thrown into tn"
wateT is because the shock auseS them
TO lose their presence of mind. The loss
of presence OF mind leads to paralysis of
body, or TO such wild exertions as aCccl-
crate drowning instead of contributing to
preservation. The ability to behave wisely
in case of sudden Academia can only be
acquired by experience, just as every
thing else has to be acquired. The theory
of the matter can be taught in swimming
schools, but the practice must be acquired
by experience. Hence, in some of the
European swimming schools, the pupils
are taken out boat riding and purposely
upset. as though the upsetting were &c
Cidcntal. They are also suddenly pushed
overheard and subjected to all manner
of prepared accidents, so as to accustom
them to acting in emergencies. In this
way they learn how to behave in case of
real accidents, and are protected against
the loss of their presence of mind on oc-
'tlNlOlln vi illlROA vi IN aNCl- lllt 1
also taught to have faith in the sustaining
power of the water itself. They get to
know that the water will sustain them if
they will only render it the least help.
A finger laid upon an oar, or the gun
vale of an overturned boat, or a board,
or almost any floating substance, will
sustain the human body in calm water.
Persons who have been properly taught,
and have acquired the habit of acting
with self possession in the water when
they are upset, do not attempt to climb
upon the overturned boat, but simply
take hold of it and quietly support them
selves. A boat half filed with water, or
completely overturned, will support as
many persons as can get their hands upon
the gunwale, if they behave quietly. In
a case of accident, a person who under.
stands and acts in accordance with these
facts would stand a better chance of be
ing saved, ever if he were a poor swim
mer, than an expert swimmer would
stand who should lose his presence of
mind.-Hebrew journal.
, 1887-07-01
DRESSING STORE WINDOWS.
Big Pay for the Man Who Does 1t Well.
Artistic SKIN Required.

Big Pay for the Man Who Does 1t Well.
Artistic SKIN Required.
Five years ago Henry Sands was a clerk
employed by a small drygoods store on
Sixth avenue. His salary was S12 a
week, and the duties required him to be
mt the store each day from 7 o'clock in
the morning until 8 in the evening. For
tune has smiled upon him since, and when
a reporter met him on Broadway a few
nights ugD be was dressed in the height
of fashion and wore diamonds. During
the conversation that followed he revealed
the cause of lis success.
you remember when l was in my old
place how | used to kick whenever they
told mo to tidy up the show windows
he said. "Well, the very thing | objected
to was the making of me. There was q
fellow employed in another drygoods
store a block down who was forever put
ting the windows of his place in shape.
Ho made me tired. My employer was all
the timo after me to get ahead of him
and arrange our stock in an advantageous
manner Finally | became so weary that
l resolved one day TO put every article he
had for sale conspicuously in the show
window. / did not know then that | had
MI III AllI RiNltL VI lIltAbN AilllllilltlRt
but l know it now. 7 went to work
with a vengeance, selected samples of
every article in the store, arranged them
in graceful draperie5 and fantastic figures
so that all could be displayed, and re-
sumcd my place behind the counter, in
wardly cursing my employer. Before
two days had passed | had reason to thank
him. The representative of a large house
camo to me and engaged my services to
dress the windows of his establishment at
an annual salary of 81, 900. What ann
rbition | ever had was aroused from that
time. | have studied the art of window
decoration 50 frequently since that | am
now rated the best nan in the business.
l draw a salary Of $7J a week and AVE
n carpenter at my command to make
whatever frames ] desire.
1.-THE mania for window display has
grown wonderfully in this country dur
ing the past o II or five years. All the
large houses employ a man ut a good sal
airy to do this work exclusively. Some
of them go to the greatest extremes. A
house in Philadelphia employs q window
dresser who has u corps Of men under
him. He has only to conceive the de-
sign. They put it into the proper shape.
There is II large lumber room on the
premises. in which the frameworks of his
most successful ideas are stored to be
used some time in the future. Several
firms in New York make q speciality Of
trimming the windows of houses which
cannot afford to employ a trimmer of
their own. To be n good trimmer n man
Lust have been brought up in the business.
An xac knowledge of the stock of goods
oil hand is very necessary, for the most
successful window trimmer is one who
can display to advantage the greatest
variety of articles. Such work is done
during the night or in the early MORN
ing, when there are few passers BY
Now York Mail and Express.
, 1887-07-01

The best blood purifier and system reg
ulator ever placed within reach of suffer
ing humanity, truly is Electric Filters.
Inactivity Of the liver, biliousness, jaun-
dice, constipation, weak kidneys, or any
disease of the urinary organs, or whoever
requires an appetizer, tonic, or mild slim
ulant, will always find Electric Bitters the
best and only certain cure known. They
act surely and quickly, every bottle guar
anteed to give entire satisfaction or money
refunded: Sold at fifty cents a bottle by
w. N. Hunt.
, 1887-07-01

CHICAGO, June 80. -Cattle-Receipts,
$500; best natives, SOLO cents higher;
shipping steers, SO. 5U,G4 10; stockers
and feeders, marke, stronger S2(G3 40;
cows and mixed, SI.iOCG 3.25; bul<. LIS
az SO; slop-ied steers. 81 1904. 80;
through Texas cattle, unchanged. Sales
81. 9OlG2 50 for bulls and cows, 81. 500
3 80 tor 100 pound steers.
Shecp-Receipts $3.50; market steady;
natives, 81 7UlG4 30, bulk, 50 SOFA 10;
western, S3.UOlg3.7 70; Texans, 81. 800
3. 81
, 1887-07-01

The hest salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price. IS cents per
box. For sale by W. N. Hunt.
, 1887-07-01
nm. MOnnIs' APHCIfIC sALyE,

4 warranted Salve to cure old sores OF
all kinds on man or beast, especially syph-
little ulcers. itching or liberated piles, alb
cesses, milk leg, old army sores, proud
flesh; q positive cure for saddle sores, ifs
lula, pail evil, scratches; the only cure 70
be used in private for treatment of svphi-
lis. No cure, money returned. One dol
lar by mail. DIR. E. W. NORRIS,
Hunters Hot Springs, Mont. |
, 1887-07-01

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, sofiens the gums. allavs
the pain, cures wind collie, and is the best
remedy Tor diarrhpa. twenty-five cents
n bottle.
, 1887-07-01

In nearly all the Sussex villages nor
only boys, but grown up and even yer,
aged men, play at marbles on good Fri
day. 1t is considered as wrong to omit
this solemn duty as to go without the
Christmas pudding, etc.--Notes am
Queries.